Big Talk
Award winning Public Affairs program heard Thursday nights, 7:30pm.

2012 Shows

• Watch Your Language! - WMPG's local word game show - May 3, 2012
  
• Occupy Wall St. Update - Guests: Katherine Hewlitt,Jake Lowry, Doug Bowen - April 26, 2012
  
• Are You Really My Friend? - Guest: Photographer Tanja Hollander - April 19, 2012
  
• Part one of an interview with Michael Kazin author of "American Dreamers: How the left changed a nation" - April 11, 2012
  
• Part two of an interview with Michael Kazin author of "American Dreamers: How the left changed a nation" - April 11, 2012
  
• Tar Sands - Guest: Emmie Theberge - April 12, 2012
  
• League of Young Voters - Guests: Ashley Phaneuf and Patrick Banks - March 29, 2012
  
• Maine College of Art - Guest: Don Tuski - January 12, 2012
  
• Maine Women's Lobby - Guest: Eliza Townsend - January 5, 2012
  
  2011 Shows
  
• End of the Iraq War - Guest: Alex Cornell du Houx - December 22, 2011
  
• Maine Clean Elections - Guest: Andrew Bossie - December 8, 2011
  
• Local Filmaker - Guest: Jonathan Lee - October 27, 2011
  
• Portland Food Co-op - Guests: Michelle Smith and Sean Cooper - October 20, 2011
  
• Occupy Maine - Guests: Protesting Activists - October 13, 2011
  
• Technology, Apps for the outdoors - Guest: Kerry Gallivan - September 22, 2011
  
• Watch Your Language - September 1, 2011
  
• The DaPonte String Quartet - August 18, 2011
  
• 61% - Guest: Chris Corzon - July 28, 2011
  
• Dance - Boston baby Dolls Burlesque with Mr. Scratch and Bates Dance Festival with Laura Faure - July 21, 2011
  
• The Maine Budget and Poltical Scandals - June 16, 2011
  
• LePage's Rampage against Women and Unions - Guests: Sarah Standford and Alec Mayburduck - June 23, 2011
  
• Young People's Political Concerns - Guest: Alex Steed - June 30, 2011
  
  
• Corporate Responsibilty - Guest: Robert Monks - May 19, 2011
  
• End of Life Care:Hospice - Guest: Lenora Tressell,RN - May 12, 2011
  
• Watch Your Language - May 5, 2011
  
• "Quirk: brain science makes sense of your particular personality" - Guest: Maine Author Hannah Holmes - April 28, 2011
  
• Egypt and Libya - Guest: Dr. Selma Botman, USM President & Dr. Ali Ahmida chair & professor of political Science at the UofNE. - April 14, 2011
  
• Watch Your Language - Big Talk's Word Game Show - March 3, 2011
  
• Watch Your Language - Big Talk's Word Game Show - February 3, 2011
  
  2009/08/07 Shows
• Watch Your Language - Big Talk's Word Game Show - April 2, 2009
  
• Maine Author series - Guest: Hannah Holmes - April 23, 2009
  
• Sustainable Foods - Guest: Chef Stuart Leckie, St. Joesphs College - April 16, 2009
  
• Maine Author series - Guest: Annie O"Brien - March 3, 2009
  
• University of Southern Maine's Future - Guest: Selma Botman, USM President - December 4, 2008
  
• Rail transport in Maine - Guest: Richard Rudolph Maine Secretary of Labor - November 20, 2008
  
• Employment in Maine, the retail sector - Guest: Maine Secretary of Labor Laura Fortman - November 13, 2008
  
• Portland Police Department - Guest: Chief Joe Loughlin - October 23, 2008
  
• The economy - Guest: Michael Hillard - October 16, 2008
  
• Referendum questions - Guest: Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap - October 9, 2008
  
• Medical Marijuana - Guest: Wendy Chapkis - September 18, 2008
  
• Watch Your Laguage - Big Talk's word game show - - September 4, 2008
  
• Hand Gun violence - Guest: Bonnie Blythe, USM student Kaleb Richards - April 10, 2008
  
• Maine Literary Award winners - Guest: Meredith Hall, Jed Coffin - March 20, 2008
  
• Recycling - Guest: Alicia Menard, Gordon McDonald - March 13, 2008
  
• Bullying - Guest: Nicole Manganelli - March 6, 2008
  
• College Readiness - Guest: Dr. Lynn Miller - Febraury 28, 2008
  
• Watch Your Language: word game - contestants: Marcia Goldenberg, Al Brewer, Margaret Cleveland, Claire Holman - February 14, 2008
  
• Green Architecture - Guest: Elizabeth Newman - January 24, 2008
  
• Reconsidering Martin Luther King - Guest: Patrick Real - January 17, 2008
  
• Guest: author Katha Pollitt - January 10, 2008
  
• Local Food - Guest: Alison LePage - December 27, 2007
  
• Reading Favorite Stories by the Big Talk crew - December 20, 2007
  
• National Novel Writing Month Guest: Anne Sibley O'Brien - December 6, 2007
  
• Sub-Prime Mortgage Mess - Guest: Mike Cote - November 29, 2007
  
• Local Thanksgiving Food - Guest: Nancy English - November 15, 2007
  
• Indigenous Rights - Guest: Rep. Donna Loring - October 25, 2007
  
• Happiness - Guest: USM Prof. Vaishali Mamgain - October 18, 2007
  
• Torture - Guest: Josh Schoenfeld, Pirun Sen, Chan Ton - September 27, 2007
  
• Iraq Update - Guest USM Prof. Mahmud Faksh - September 20, 2007
  
• Topic - Land Mines, Guest Sean Moorehouse - September 13, 2007
  
• Watch Your Language-Quiz Show, contestants - Zarra Herman, Barry Hilton, Melissa Mularky, Suzanne Murphy - September 6, 2007
  
• Overworked guest USM Prof. Michael Hilliard - August 30, 2007
  
• Portland Water Quality, with guest Bob Hunt - August 23, 2007
  
• Quiz show II, contestants Marcia Goldenberg, Zarra Herman, Barry Hilton, Melissa Mularky - May 24, 2007
  
• Excerpts from banjo master builder & performer Jimmy Cox - May 10, 2007 part one
  Excerpts from banjo master builder & performer Jimmy Cox - May 10, 2007 part two
  
• Real ID with guest Shanna Bellows & Scott Lansley - May 4, 2007
  
• Profile Maine Author Hannah Holmes - April 26, 2007
  
• Climate Change in the Gulf Of Maine , guest USM Professor Lewis Incze & Dr. Dan Holland - April 12, 2007
  
• Verizon sale to Fairpoint, guest Diane Wintonn & Wayne Jortner - March 29, 2007
  
• Actress profile, Denise Poirier - March 1, 2007
  
• Part One - Wind Power with guest Kathryn Carroll (Director of LURC) and guest Patrick McGowan (Commissioner of ME Department of Conservation - February 15, 2007
  Part Two
  
• Peace Action Maine with guest Danny Muller - February 8, 2007
  
• Mentoring with guest Cindy Brogan - January 18, 2007
  
• Previous Shows
• USM President Richard Pattenaude: 09/11/2003 USM President Richard Pattenaude was a guest on WMPG's Big Talk this past Thursday.
  
• Mother Warren "Remembering Mother Warren" was produced by Big Talk members Jessica Lockhart, Michael Hillard, and Claire Holman. Narrator: Thomas Lestage, President PACE Local 1069. Project Historians: Eileen Eagan and Michael Hillard. Additional narration by Paul Drinan
• USM President Richard Pattenaude: 10/24/02 USM President Richard Pattenaude was a guest on WMPG's Big Talk this past Thursday. Listen in as he answers questions concerning WMPG, the USM parking issues and more!
  
• Methadone Clinics: 7/11/02 Director of Portland's public health Nat Nickerson and Methadone client Bonnie
  
• The Global Economy: 6/27/02 Professor James Crotty from the University of Mass. Amherst
  
• Department of Transportantion: 6/20/02 Ron Roy the Director of the office of passenger transportation and Carl Close the Director of the Bureau of Planning
  
• Homeland Security: 6/13/02 Dorkus Kirpatrick the Director of the Maine's Civil Liberty Union and USM History Professor Eileen Egan
  
• Dr. Amy Tsanga USM Professor Series. Dr. Amy Tsanga is a Fulbright Scholar in residence from the University of Zimbabwe
  
• Mark Filler Accounting and Enron. What role did Arthur Anderson play in the Enron case...
  
• Dr. Chinyere Grace Okafor USM Professor Series. Dr. Chinyere Grace Okafor visiting Professor from Nigeria talks about her poems and books.
  
• History Professor Vim Klooster (pt1) USM Professor Series. Professor Vim Klooster discusses USM's lecture series called "Diaspora; Meanings of Home" and his specialty focuing on Safardic Trad Networks in the 16th and 17th centuries.
• History Professor Vim Klooster (pt2)
• Jagdeep Lehki(pt1) discusses India and Pakistan and the politicol and social relations between the countries.
• Jagdeep Lehki(pt2)
• Maine Counties Coalation of Women discussion A discussion about the Maine Counties Coalation of Women. Guest included Charlotte & Gillian Aldebrine and Rosalie Paul. Host, Claire Holman
• "Crossing Cultural Borders" & DC War Protest Part One: USM Conference "Crossing Cultural Borders - Marginalized Identities in a Multi-Cultural Society". Guest Jeremy Federman. Part Two: A discussion about the protest in Washington DC against the war in Afghanistan. Guest Michelle Vazquez Jacobs. Hosts, Michael Hillard and Claire Holman.
• December13, 2001 Broadcast Focus on consumerism.